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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80177</law_id><section_number>55.1-608</section_number><catch_line>Certifications of recordation upon copies of certain instruments and subsequent recordation in other county or city</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="55.1">Property and Conveyances</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Real Estate Settlements and Recordation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Recordation of Documents</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Whenever a mortgage or deed of trust instrument upon real or personal property located in more than one county or city is recorded in one such county or city, the <span class="dictionary">party</span> by whom it is so presented may deliver to the clerk of such <span class="dictionary">court</span> any number of executed and acknowledged copies of such instrument. The clerk shall fix to each such copy his certificate of recordation, certifying thereby the payment of the recordation tax levied by the Commonwealth, and shall return to the <span class="dictionary">party</span> presenting all such instruments all such copies except one, which shall be retained by the clerk for recordation in his office. Such certificate shall be conclusive <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> of the payment of the recordation tax indicated thereby, and the clerk in any other recording office in any other county or city shall accept for recordation in his office any such copy so certified.</p></section></text><history>1962, c. 301, &#xA7; 55-109.1; 2019, c. 712.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
